site update: a bit of design work

not earth-shattering developments, but i’ve made a few updates to my site theme that may or may not be interesting, depending on whether you are a geek or not. in no particular order, the changes include:

• the site name is larger, and the byline is moved to the right of it
• the main page width scales with your browser window width, but will have a minimum and maximum width if your window gets too small or too large (except Internet Explorer 6 users – you get a fixed width page. please upgrade)
• there is a very subtle, dotted separator line delineating the flickr images on the left, from the content column in the center, from the utility column on the right
• not only do the columns scale with browser width, but the whitespace between them scales, and keeps the separator line centered between the columns
• the header and columns now are more rigidly aligned in a grid
• the utility column on the right scales up to be wider than it used to be, yet scales down smaller than it used to
• the content column, and parts of the utility column, are now text-justified so they fill squarely to the right margin
• i’ve added some simple logic to the flickr image display so it retrieves fewer images on article pages than it does on the homepage (the content of some articles is a lot shorter, and the images were pushing out the page height past the content length)

this revisit was inspired by attending An Event Apart Boston recently (writing a summary of AEA on my SQUAREDESIGN site). if you have any opinions, let me know.